POSTED May 12, 2025

       JENNIFER JENKINS won her first feature ever on Mother’s Day at the Mottville Speedway Sunday as she won the 15 lap Mini Thunder Car feature! Saturday night Jennifer won her first dash ever and she came back Sunday and won the dash again and was 2^nd in the heat! In the heat she was also put to the tail for the first time ever for exceeding the lead rule! Joe Fitzpatrick was 2^nd in the feature followed by Fred Garrett, Brian Jenkins and Diane Fitzpatrick. Brian Jenkins spun into the muddy infield early on in the feature and could never catch up after winning his first feature of the season Saturday night!

Josh Salter won the 15 lap Mottville Stock feature and $100 for his first feature win of the season! Wesley Schaefer led the first 11 laps before Salter got by and Wes settled for 2^nd. Robert Teadt, Jr. passed Jason Schaefer on the final lap for 3^rd. The feature was a 4 car battle for the entire 15 laps! Teadt won the dash and Salter the heat.

The Thunder Car 15 lap feature was really exciting as 5 cars battled for the lead the entire 15 laps! On the final lap going into turn 3 Bill Crapo made a bold move to the inside and next to the “lake” which had formed in the infield and spread to the track from all the rains! The move paid off as Crapo went from 4^th to 1^st and at the finish line nipped Randy Burns by inches and Eric Root by inches with Burns getting 2^nd and Root 3^rd! Richard Allbee was 4^th and Cindy Grinnell 5^th. Burns took the dash and Root just nipped Burns for the heat win.

Terry Humphries returned to Mottville for the first time in 2002 and won the 15 lap Bomber feature over Vern Hammond and Randy Jones. Humphries also won the heat. His 56 car is really a sharp looking car! Jones hit the front stretch wall hard during the feature but was ok, the car needs much work!

Paul Scott made it 8 Pro Stock feature wins on the season as he took the 15 lap feature over Fred Lowrey and Scott Newsom. Scott also took the heat. Lowrey moved to 2^nd in the season point standings behind Scott. Newsome had the transmission on his truck go out just west of Sturgis and called me and I asked Bill Crapo to rescue him which he did with help from Rita Courtney, Shelly Lauderdale and Robert Teadt, Jr. A big thanks to all of them for their help!

I have never seen so much water at Mottville! It rained hard all night Saturday night and finally quit for awhile in the late morning but returned again in the afternoon and then quit but started again at 6pm! The track was finally getting dry about the time of the last feature! But in spite of all this we had 25 cars on hand and they really put on a great show!

Hammond moved to within 2 points of Bomber leader Wayne Saily, who was absent. Teadt moved into 3^rd in the MS standings over absent Larry Birk. Crapo moved into 2^nd in the TC standings over absent Bryan Whitaker.

Frankly I am getting sick of all the rain and even the farmers do not want more for now at least! Tuesday I want to get the speedway grounds all mowed and weeds killed! The early forecast for next week-end is good, dry! PTL!!! Sunday the PS race for $350 to win if we have 8 cars. 16 nights down now and 60 to go and we are nearing the first quarter mark of the season! Hopefully the worse weather is now behind us! But the racing sure has been very, very good!